Machine Learning

Google's Magenta project has unveiled a hardware interface for an algorithm-based synthesizer that uses a deep neural network to generate completely new sounds. Musicians drag a finger around the NSynth Super's touchscreen to explore the unique sounds offered up by the machine learning algorithm.​

​​We've seen a number of smart home thermostats over the past few years and Boston apparel company Ministry of Supply wants to bring this kind of personalized climate control to people on the move, launching a heated jacket that tunes its temp in line with user preferences.

​When it comes to part-picking robots, they're typically programmed to grasp a specific object in a specific fashion. Scientists from MIT and Princeton, however, have developed a system that allows robots to grab random objects from a bin, then identify what the objects are and where they should go.

The human brain is a beast of a computer, but before we can emulate that we’ll need to start with something simpler. C. elegans is a worm whose basic brain of only 302 neurons has been digitized. Now researchers have taught this virtual worm a new trick, without writing a single line of code.

It turns out that combining a CPU and a GPU into one package isn't the most unconventional processor Intel had up its sleeve for CES 2018. It has revealed a new quantum computer test chip containing 49 quantum bits (qubits), as well as a "neuromorphic" chip based on the function of the human brain.

When Sony first released a cute robot dog back in 1999, the world went crazy for it. But all good things must come to an end, and the bots were discontinued in 2006. Now Sony's bringing the aibo back, and it looks better than ever. It's also quite a different beast to its playful ancestors.

MIT scientists have developed an autonomous robot that uses a suite of sensors and an advanced machine learning technique to navigate crowded areas. It could be another step towards fully automated delivery bots, or even smart personal mobility devices capable of navigating a busy street.

Microsoft researchers have hit a milestone 25 years in the making. The company's conversational speech recognition system has finally reached an error rate of only 5.1 percent, putting it on par with the accuracy of professional human transcribers for the first time ever.

OpenAI, the Elon Musk-backed AI research company, has recently unleashed its latest bot on The International, a giant eSports tournament focusing on the game Dota 2. After just two weeks of independent learning, the bot could beat the world's top players.